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    The rotary engine is an early type of internal combustion engine, usually designed with an odd number of cylinders per row in a radial configuration. The...
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    The Wankel engine (/ˈvaŋkəl̩/, VUN-kell) is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion...
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    The Mazda Wankel engines are a family of Wankel rotary combustion car engines produced by Mazda. Wankel engines were invented in 1950s by Felix Wankel...
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    A pistonless rotary engine is an internal combustion engine that does not use pistons in the way a reciprocating engine does. Designs vary widely but typically...
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  • crankshaft. Rotary engine may also refer to: Pistonless rotary engine, a type of pistonless internal combustion engine Turbine, a rotary engine that extracts...
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    The General Motors Rotary Combustion Engine (GMRCE) is an internal combustion Wankel engine which uses a rotary design to convert pressure into a rotating...
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    with the 1972 B1600. In 1974, the similar rotary-powered Rotary Pickup was released in the US. The engine was enlarged to 1.8-liters for 1975's B1800...
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    two-stroke and four-stroke engines. Most hydraulic automotive power steering control valves. In the context of brass instruments, rotary valves are found on...
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    Mazda RX-7 (category Cars powered by Wankel engines)
    The Mazda RX-7 is a front mid engine, rear-wheel-drive, rotary engine-powered sports car, manufactured and marketed by Mazda from 1978 through 2002 across...
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  • Wankel Diesel engine describes the idea of using the Diesel principle in a Wankel rotary engine. Several attempts to build such an engine have been made...
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    NSU Spider (category Rear-engined vehicles)
    production car in the world to be powered by a Wankel rotary engine. The water-cooled single rotor engine and standard front disc brakes differentiated the...
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    Pneumatic motor (redirect from Air engine)
    loaded to stop with full torque without damage. The efficiency of a rotary piston engine is highly dependent on mechanical energy losses. The value of mechanical...
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    X-engine is a type of pistonless rotary engine manufactured by LiquidPiston of Bloomfield, Connecticut. The X engine is a hybrid cycle rotary engine. This...
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    Ridge National Laboratory Libralato Engines – developing a rotary Atkinson cycle engine Rotary Atkinson cycle engine Archived 2020-06-19 at the Wayback...
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    company; the engine was often known as the Canton-Unné. From 1909 to 1919 the radial engine was overshadowed by its close relative, the rotary engine, which...
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    configurations of aviation inline engine, such as X-engines, U-engines, H-engines, etc., see Inline engine (aeronautics). Rotary engines have the cylinders in a...
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    Monosoupape (French for single-valve), was a rotary engine design first introduced in 1913 by Gnome Engine Company (renamed Gnome et Rhône in 1915). It...
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    Mazda RX-8 (category Cars powered by Wankel engines)
    a rotary Wankel engine. The RX-8 was available for the 2003 model year in most parts of the world. The Mazda RX-8 utilizes a rotary Wankel engine, and...
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    Mazda Grand Familia (category Cars powered by Wankel engines)
    wagon. The Grand Familia offered only inline four cylinder engines. The largely identical rotary-powered versions were marketed as the Mazda Savanna (マツダ・サバンナ...
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    Mazda Luce (redirect from Mazda Luce Rotary)
    until 1970. A rotary-powered Luce appeared in 1969. The Luce R130 was produced from October 1969 to 1972. It used a 1.3-liter 13A engine, which produced...
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    Bourke engine Four-stroking Junkers Jumo 205 Kadenacy effect Rolls-Royce Crecy Rotary engine Twingle engine Stroke (engine) Two- and four-stroke engines Four-stroke...
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    French aircraft engine manufacturer. Between 1914 and 1918 they produced 25,000 of their 9-cylinder Delta and Le Rhône 110 hp (81 kW) rotary designs, while...
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    Suzuki RE5 (category Motorcycles powered by Wankel engines)
    Italian industrial designer Giorgetto Giugiaro. Compared to piston engines, rotary engines are smooth, light, and compact with high power relative to displacement...
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    Adams Company, Dubuque, Iowa / F.O. Farwell, engines for gyrocopters Adams-Farwell 36 hp 5-cyl rotary engine 4.25 in × 3.25 in (108 mm × 83 mm) Adams-Farwell...
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  • developed and patented a variety of rotary engine designs. He was the creator of New Zealand's first rotary engine. Walker was born 10 November 1903, the...
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    Clerget was the name given to a series of early rotary aircraft engine types of the World War I era that were designed by Pierre Clerget(fr). Manufactured...
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  • Motorenfabrik Oberursel (category Defunct aircraft engine manufacturers of Germany)
    aircraft engines situated in Oberursel (Taunus), near Frankfurt (Main), Germany. During World War I it supplied a major 100 hp-class rotary engine that was...
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    Mazda Cosmo (category Cars powered by Wankel engines)
    of the most grueling tests in Europe to prove the reliability of the rotary engine, the 84-hour Marathon de la Route at the legendary Nürburgring circuit...
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    QinetiQ Banshee (category Single-engined pusher aircraft)
    using a 40 kg thrust rotary engine, with a typical mission endurance of 90 minutes and a parachute for recovery. A single jet engine version with 40 kg...
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  • commercial-scale solar cell technology and developed a new type of engine, the "McMaster Rotary Engine." McMaster was an inventor early on. His father gave him...
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